[eccr] Special Issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies

>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>Scope: An On-line Journal of Film Studies
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>Special Issue: Convergence and Divergence in the Media
>
>With the advent of cable and satellite, digital television, the Internet 
>and home cinema, claims by manufacturers and critics that new disparate 
>media are integrating or converging are gathering momentum. However, 
>recent scenes from reality television series The Osbournes, in which Ozzy 
>Osbourne is shown pummelling his universal remote control in frustration, 
>indicate that consumer relationships with these converging media are 
>anything but straightforward. In fact, equal claims can be made for 
>increasing levels of divergence among these media, with numbers of media 
>and products attempting to create and delineate new markets for 
>themselves. This special issue of Scope is intended to investigate the 
>relationships between the media and their producers and consumers in order 
>to better understand the points at which these media are undergoing 
>processes of convergence and divergence.
>Attempts to create such new markets for media and their hardware often 
>centre on the presence of film. Film forms the basis for the premiere 
>channels on satellite and cable television, it provides the locus for DVD 
>and video and it has been central to the development of home cinema. Film 
>as content therefore provides a link between the development of even the 
>most disparate media technologies be they soft- or hardware in form. 
>Equally these new media have the power to shift the meanings of film in 
>popular culture. The Editors would like to encourage submissions that 
>account for local, national, transnational and global approaches to these 
>new media. We therefore also strongly encourage submissions from a wide 
>range perspectives including political economy, cultural policy, marketing 
>and mediation, reception and aesthetics.
>
>Submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics are welcomed:
>    * Digital television: changing the cultural meanings of TV
>    * Interactivity in the new media
>    * Marketing and retailing home cinema
>    * "Lifestyle"  cinema: the design of home cinema
>    *  Dolby and THX in the home and in cinemas
>    * Consumers of home cinema and digital technologies
>    * The digital TV revolution (?): Freeview and the BBC
>    * TiVo and Sky et al: consumer freedom or spying on consumers?
>    * Cable and satellite film channels
>    * Film and/on the Internet
>    * Film and the music video
>    * New media and film piracy/regulation
>    * Quality and the impact of home cinema technologies (including 
> surround sound, flat screens, plasma screens etc.)
>    * Film and/in DVD technologies
>    * Competing spaces of exhibition: domestic and public
>    * Going out/Staying in: audiences and the different cultural uses of film
>    * Computers and entertainment: films, games and interactivity
>    * Hierarchies of viewing: film across the media
>    * The family and film
>    * Nationality and film on satellite and cable TV
>
>Due date for submissions: 1st September 2004
>
>Editors: Mark Jancovich, Gianluca Sergi and Rayna Denison
>
>Submissions to the Journal should contain a short 200 word abstract, be 
>between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length, double-spaced and should follow 
>the Scope Submission Guidelines (to be found at 
>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/submiss.htm). Any queries about 
>submissions for the special issue are welcome.
>
>To submit a paper or query please contact Rayna Denison at 
>(arxrld /at/ nottingham.ac.uk). The closing date for submissions is 1st 
>September, 2004. In accordance with the Submission Guidelines 2 full 
>copies of papers and a floppy disk can also be sent by post to:
>Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies
>C/o School of American and Canadian Studies
>University of Nottingham
>University Park
>Nottingham NG7 2RD
>
>Scope is an entirely free online journal of film studies edited by staff 
>and students within the Institute of Film Studies at the University of 
>Nottingham. As our title suggests, we provide a forum for discussion of 
>all aspects of film history, theory and criticism. It is our belief that 
>an electronic publication such as Scope can best serve its readers 
>interests by promoting as wide a range of approaches and critical 
>methodologies as possible.
>As a fully refereed journal, Scope is dedicated to publishing material of 
>the highest scholarly quality and interest, and to this end we have 
>assembled a distinguished international advisory board of professional 
>academics and critics. While we welcome contributions from established 
>writers, we are also keen to act as a supportive environment within which 
>those new to the field of film studies can publish their first work.
>
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